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[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] done12many2:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=991595

It's clearly explained in the original thread.

Uploaded slowly via my Atrix 4g.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mohkg:
forget it i found it myself just didnt think about it thanks anyway for all the help u humans supplied me with .:):):):):):):):):):):cool::eek::D
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] norcal einstein:
Next time, dont post in this sub forum if it doesn't pertain to development.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Menethil:
got it,I'm sorry
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr. Clown:
Moved to proper forum
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seven2099:
are you sick or something?

or maybe u just 12
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] decoyd:
I didn't know this is that kind of thread...

Okay, I'll go first: 13/F/CA Bedtime=8:30
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] Blackbolt.ad:
im looking for a [reboot animation] for my g2 can some one plz make one of this for me plz im looking for an xbox or a wanted the movie reboot or theme plz thanks :)
[Android] Mr. Rager:
Why oh why can I not get anything to boot on my gosh darn incredible? I've tried everything except making it all work.

I want so badly to get something to boot, but alas it never happens. Stuck at the white screen is as far as I ever get. I don't even get the satisfaction of seeing a bootloop, at least then I'd be seeing some sort of progress. Its disheartening. I've tried all kinds of roms and system dumps to no avail.

There must be something I'm doing wrong, what?
[Android] ithrewitontheground:
Do wipe data and cache before flashing?
[Android] Mr. Rager:
Yeah. I did manage to get a boot loop with the huashan gingersense leak. So some progress.
[Android] gnarlyc:
Give more detail, and I might be able to help. What steps are you taking to port the ROM?

You need a kernel from your device at least. You also need to change some entries in build.prop and rename the init.devicename.rc to your device's name and not the original ROM's. Then you need to replace any device specific drivers and libs with ones from your device. And then, it still might not work. There's a lot going on here.

I'm assuming that by 'porting' you mean taking an existing ROM from another device and making it work on yours. The word has a different meaning also, which is take AOSP/CM/whatever and make it work on a device that it doesn't currently work on.
[Android] Mr. Rager:
Thanks I've swapped the boot.img, changed the build.prop, didn't rename the init file I instead copied over it. Copied the wifi modules, all the missing libs, the usr folder, bin folder, etc folder, and xbin.

Problem is when I change the libs it never gets past the splash, but when I change just the boot.img it'll boot loop.

And yes I mean from one device to another.
[Android] gnarlyc:
Personally, I wouldn't copy entire folders over. I also wouldn't copy the boot.img over. I'm not saying that it won't work in some cases. It might. I've always swapped the kernels inside the boot.img, and renamed the device specific init file. Then, I would compare the init files from an existing ROM for my device with the init files from the ROM that I'm trying to port and see if there are any lines that are device-specific. If the init file is trying to start up something that doesn't exist on my device, then it doesn't make sense to keep that line. On the other hand, there might be a line that changes something for that ROM that IS needed.

This same thing kind of goes with the libs and other files too. You might have one lib that relies on another lib being there. And it might need a particular build of that lib. And other files might call certain libs. This is one reason that building from source generally works better over the long run than trying to get one device's ROM to work on another.

You have device specific and ROM specific things going on at the same time, so wholesale copies tend to miss one or the other. Plus it's nice to dig in and get an idea about what's going on.

Also, if you can get adb access while it's booting, grab a logcat. It might give you an idea about what is failing.
[Android] Mr. Rager:
I re-did the boot.img by replacing the kernel and renaming (in this case) init.hua_shan.rc to init.inc.rc. It gets past the "HTC Incredible" splash. So, that's a plus.

I did get a logcat, as I always do when I flash a new rom that hasn't been tried before. I use pastebin so take a 'gander' at it if you will.

From the looks of it Alsa, bouncycastle, and audio libs are having problems. Oh, and the bootanimation.zip didn't get dumped from the Huashan, but it's no big deal.

http://pastebin.com/VVxufgQL

Oh, and thank you for the help you have provided thus far.
[Android] dsixda:
Did you also change the ro.board.platform parameter in build.prop so that it matches the chipset name originally on your device?

Also, the next time you flash this ROM, dump the recovery log file before you reboot. This may show you errors encountered during the flash which were not shown in the normal output. A common error is porting a large ROM - such as Desire HD's - to a device with a small system partition in comparison. A workaround is to remove unneeded apps under system/app to reduce size of the ROM.

You may also want to try the Porting option in my Android Kitchen, it does the renaming, kernel and driver modifications for you.
[Android] Mr. Rager:
I've had a busy past couple of days, but I'll check into the recovery dump and see what's up. I did change the ro.board.

I was trying to abstain from your porting tools, no offense, only so I could do it manually. Just trying to gain more experience, I guess, and learn. Your kitchen is excellent. I use to set up my environment and deodex among other things. The porting tool, though greatly eases the pain and shorten the manual labor ( yes lazy America) , take the learning curve out, a bit. But I guess I could take a look at the script to see what's going on too. Lol.

EDIT#1 - So I just tried to flash my rom. However, it wouldn't, because for some reason my phone is very particular about how one copies files over to the sd card. For one, you have to have the phone booted up, MIUI GB latest in my case, and mount usb storage. If I mount it through recovery, it corrupts my sd card, too bad I wish I knew that earlier. It's a PITA really...Ubuntu...

But, as phone WAS:

Hboot - 0.92

Radio - 11.19

Ship S - OFF

I tried copying and flashing through recovery. Fail as usual. So, I was gonna boot up into MIUI and try to copy from there, and got the infamous 5-vibe and twinkle.

I tried several times to boot into MIUI, but after many battery pulls, I figured out something ODD. In the bootloader the first couple of times it skipped the scanning process, then it started scanning again. Upon further inspection:

Hboot - still 0.92

Radio - still 11.19

Ship S - ON <---NOT A TYPO

Why? I haven't a clue. I tether my phone, so I got it booted, yay, but to do it, my sd card has to be removed and my usb plugged in, then turn on. So, my next edit will be a progress update. AFTER I s-off again ( that sounds kinda dirty, lol ), and re-format my sd. Also, my phone thinks it's charging...ITS UNPLUGGED. Lol, infinite-charging batteries, it's the future...
[Android] Mr. Rager:
So...Good news is I got another incredible with amoled screen

Bad news I got another incredible with nothing on it, or rooted :-( But I rooted it before I even activated it with *228 :-P

But, alas, I still have all of my work on my computer. I managed to back it up before my phone crapped out. Plus I kinda get to start from the beginning so I can be more observant, and particular.

So, back to work...will update tonight.

Edit 1 - So after some more tinkering I've managed to fix some issues, but others have popped up namely the HTC Sim card authentication, which I have no idea about, yet, bouncycastle.jar is being stubborn by not fiding its classes, and libaudioflinger.so is failing to link to libsystem_server.so which in turn fails the link to libandroid_servers.so. Same three problems as before it seems.

Here's a pastebin of the logcat.

http://pastebin.com/QYde7fuQ

I'll keep tinkering about and see what I can come up with. Hopefully I'm closer to getting this thing booted up than I think.
[G Tablet General] docprego:
I was near an Office Depot today and stopped in to see if they had the G Tablet on display. Sure enough there it was very close to the front of the store in an Android tablets display. I had never seen the device in person before and based on what I have been reading I was expecting to see literally the worst screen I have ever seen on a device. Imagine my surprise when I hit the power button and was presented with what was in my opinion a very nice display. Sure if I changed my viewing angle to an unnatural position it started to look worse but it's a tablet! I'm literally always going to have it directly in my line of sight. When used in this manner I thought it looked great!

I have bought and returned an iPad 2 due to terrible backlight bleeding. One thing that struck me as much better about the G Tablet screen was that it was much less pixelated than the iPad 2 screen. Web pages were sharper as was the overall interface. In my opinion the viewing angle issue has been greatly overblown.

This unit on display was running in the classic mode and even then it was quite sluggish. I'm not sure if this should be attributed to the fact that Viewsonic's ROM is simply awful or if this particular unit had an issue. Regardless I'll be rooting and installing one of the preferred ROM's on my device anyway so performance will not be an issue.

For $279 this is looking like quite a value, can't wait to receive it!
[G Tablet General] Metal_in_Silk:
Nice to read this. I was also expecting to see a really crappy display that blacks out the second you tilt your head a fraction. Really glad to hear that this isn't the case.

Now I'm about to stand on my head to get a shipping email. Ain't gonna happen until at least Monday.

Good lord. I wasn't this anxious for Xmas when I was a kid ;->
[G Tablet General] edirector:
You are funny but I get you nothing like the anticipation of a new tech toy. You will love gtab particularly thinking about how much you paid for such a fun device.
[G Tablet General] magqccom:
The screen is fine in landscape mode as you indeed will position it at a natural angle and everything will be fine. Just so I am clear, by natural, I mean you don't really position the display perfectly flat in front of your eyes, you tend to look at the screen having your eyes positioned higher than the screen (unless your the kind of person who enjoys having his arms in the air). This is when colors are the most uniform from top to bottom. if you were to raise it or lean it back too much so that you end up positioning your eyes lower than the bottom of the tablet, you get past the screen's viewing angle.

This is only problematic in portrait mode (which I seldom use). For example, if you rotate your tablet so that the top is now facing left, you then need to position the tablet to your right a little to get the same color uniformity as you need to keep both your eyes over the top of the tablet.

If they made xooms or ipads with this screen for 300$ in addition to the 600$ "perfect screen", I would chose the 300$ one as you easily get used to it.

To put it in perspective, the touchscreen is not sensitive enough on a tiny area at the top left corner of my g-tablet and I have trouble taping things there (where the home button is located on VEGAn tab and the battery icon on gAdam). Comparatively, this is by far a worst problem than the viewing angle in my mind.
[G Tablet General] cruiser771:
I think it looks bad, when I have it laying down I can't see a thing. When I show friends something I wonder if they can see it. It's not the worst but it could be much better
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
(Devil's Advocate)

I've had my GTAB since November and I do love the device - it's a modder's dream since it's very difficult to fully brick. Got mine used on the cheap and I feel that the hardware itself is solid. Except the screen.

You are 100% correct that it's fine when using spot-on in landscape, but tilt it ever so slightly down and solarization begins. And, in portrait mode, even the slightest tilt will change the screen image significantly.

I didn't really notice this flaw at first. It really took me at least a week or two of using it for various things before it became noticable. Trying to play a game where you need to move the device around a lot, playing a video when it's flat on the table and you are looking at it from an angle. Or reading comics in portrait mode.

The iPad1, for all its faults (and there are many), has a fantastic IPS screen that eats the GTAB's for lunch. I have a SmartQ R10 with the same screen and that's what I use for reading comics... not the GTAB. I think the screen has been the #1 hardware issue here in XDA since the forum opened - so much so that there are several threads on trying to get a replacement screen that would fit.

Here's a post I made over at Slatedroid comparing the GTAB angles with a Xoom and an R10: http://www.slatedroid.com/index.php?/topic/15865-screen-angles/. Those pictures are very accurate.

Not trying to kill people's excitement - just understand what you're getting - it's still a GREAT bargain and a great device. But the screen angles can be a problem, depending on what you use it for.

As for the question on speed -- imo, 3389 (and even the latest 3588 release) are still a bit sluggish, as you mentioned. Several alternate ROMs out there will improve speeds significantly as they are using newer drivers that Viewsonic has yet to incorporate into a released firmware.
[G Tablet General] NinetyWt:
I should think that those of us who don't plan to watch videos or play games will be quite satisfied with it.
[G Tablet General] dfin13:
Thanks for the comparison pictures -- that was a great service to those of us on the fence :) The viewing angle issue, while noticeable, now seems tolerable to me. I'm torn between grabbing a Xoom tomorrow or ordering a G-tab from Tigerdirect tonight (kicking myself for being such a wuss and not getting it from Woot...). Aside from the screen, my biggest concern is that the G-tab will never get Honeycomb, and if it does, whether or not the lower resolution will make it incompatible with tablet apps. I love Android, but I don't want to use the tablet as an oversized phoneless phone for too long.

Decisions, decisions ...
[G Tablet General] LowSky:
From those pictures I doesn't look that bad. Sure IPS has better viewing angles, but most people use a TFT monitor on their computer at home, and they dont complain. There is a down side to IPS and its the refresh rate that can cause ghosting. Plus think of it as a semi security feature, it will be harder for people to look over your shoulder and see what you are up to.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Google seems to be really bent out of shape with getting AOSP out for 3.0 - my guess is that Moto is really paying them them a nice sum to keep the Xoom as the ONLY HC device around.

If one Harmony based device gets HC, someone will probably manage to port it to ours. We just need that first device to get it. But that may not be for a long time. And agreed on the screen, but keep in mind that the Notion Ink Adam has the same screen so if they manage to port it, then the GTAB will likely get it.

Agreed - the bottom line it what you plan to do with the device. Spot-on landscape mode looks like just like a netbook screen, because that's exactly what's in the GTAB.
[G Tablet General] goodintentions:
People like to exaggerate. I don't know why, but they like to do it. It's also because this unit doesn't cost as much as, say, the ipad.

My brother, someone who always wants the newest and greatest, came over to visit today with his 2 kids. I let the kids play with the device because they were curious. My brother started criticizing it after I told him how much I paid for it. First, he criticized it for the small internal sdcard. I had to tell him that the ipad has the same amount of internal space. He then accused the battery of not lasting long enough. I had to tell him that actually it's right up there with the ipad. He then picked it up and said it was too heavy. I told him that it only weighed .22 lb more than the ipad. Not to be outdone, he claimed that .22 was too much more than his ipad. He then said it must be really really slow. I brought it over to him and showed him that it was running just as fast as his ipad. He started playing with it and then he said "aha, it doesn't have 3g."

The point is he had never seen the gtab before. Actually, he had never heard of it before. Yet, he didn't like it at all. It was obvious he was desperately looking for reasons not to like it.

I did notice that even though he was looking for every reason to criticize it he never noticed the screen being "bad". So, obviously the gtab screen isn't really that bad. People online who are bashing this device describing the screen as the worst thing ever to have existed (or something like that) are just exaggerating because they are looking for a reason to bash the device.

It's no different than a typical netbook or laptop screen. Why the bloody hell is it a life and death issue all the sudden?
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Because with a netbook / laptop screen, you are looking at it at the same angle 90% of the time. A tablet is a different animal - you have it flat on your desk, or in portrait mode reading a book, or moving it around if you're playing a game. It's not at the same landscape mode / angle all the time. Completely different device.

Here's a perfect example: I was playing that evil and life-draining game Angry Birds earlier today. On my Xoom tablet, I have a tendency to play it where the screen is leaning back slightly on my palm, as that's comfortable for one handed play. Screen is fine. But on the GTAB, when I play it that way the screen solarization can be seen - I have to force it to be more spot-on to my line of sight, but that's not as comfortable in my hand.

That's the difference, and why it's not really that noticeable until you really start using it day-to-day for a long period of time.
[G Tablet General] goodintentions:
Don't get me wrong. I notice it, too. It just doesn't bother me like it supposedly bother other people. But then again, I was born in a house with a dirt floor and grew up with a 4 inch black and white tv, so I guess my standards aren't as high as yours.
[G Tablet General] Metal_in_Silk:
Thanks for the link to the comparison roebeet. I think I can live with that. One of my (major) pet peeves is having a co-worker peer over at what I'm doing, makes me want to do a Three Stooges eyepoke. This should actually work in my favor as:

1) I won't have to outen some nosy body's eyes when I check msgs

2) Will probably save my job and/or a lawsuit one day (see #1)

Still excited and bouncing in anticipation LOL it's been ages since I've played around with mods on a device. Really looking forward to it :D
[G Tablet General] dfin13:
Just ordered mine, in the same boat as you :) Tigerdirect the estimated arrive date as the 29th, but Memphis tends to get things a little quicker *fingers crossed* :D
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
In my house, my kids call me "the cheapskate". I set new lows for standards. :eek:

And at least you had a TV - I used to make dioramas with cartoon cutouts in them to make my own cartoon shows. And I liked it!
[G Tablet General] Metal_in_Silk:
Lucky you! You'll be modding and playing Angry Birds while I'm still waiting on a shipment confirmation :p

Srsly, this is gonna be some fun. The screen doesn't suck as bad as I thought it would and playing with the various mods will be a very welcome distraction from doing ppls taxes :rolleyes:
[G Tablet General] Metal_in_Silk:
Now THAT was an interesting mental image :eek:
[G Tablet General] edirector:
When I played with the xoom up close I noticed the bad viewing angles too. At that price unacceptable but at the price of the g tab understable they already gave you quite a lot for little money, costs had to be cut somewhere. Xoom should be top notch. I started to buy it until I saw the viewing angles and build. The SmartQ awesome. I actually need another tab for work with a different operating system but did not find the ipad engaging enough. I hate the slow rate of trickle with these tabs.

Looking at the last picture unless they were swapped the xoom looked washed out to me. SmartQ held it's own in every picture.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Darn spell check screwed up. But maybe I should have left it - it was a more interesting response!

Yeah, it's a bit washed out once the angles go past a certain point - I think it's just the nature of a TFT screen and probably can't be avoided. But slight angles (which you can't really see in those pics) are very good on the Xoom.

And x2 on the GTAB comment. At less than half price, it's still a bargain. We don't have HC either, but that's something that's potentially fixable, at least.

As for the SmartQ R10, the angles are great but it's a slow-as-molasses device (Telechips CPU with Android 2.1, only) - works fine as a cbz reader, however. What I'm still waiting for is an IPS screen paired with a Tegra 2 chipset. They are coming this year, allegedly.
[G Tablet General] xmr405o:
Edit: actually roebeet got his for way cheaper, if I recall. My bad.

First off, I'm not dogging you about your post. But most of the complaints about the screen were more valid back in november than it is today.

He bought his in november like me. Back then, we paid 350-399 for our gtablets and the only 10 inch tablet close to that price point would probably be the ipad. So naturally we would have compared this tablet to the ipad. First thing that stuck out was the mediocre gtablet viewing angles vs the ipads. Which was a valid argument because the ipad was selling for the same price at certain retail stores around that time.

Now I think the viewing angles can be tolerated a little more by owners or potential buyers because they can get this tablet for $299 or below. For that price point, I don't know too many 10 inch tablets that would have a better screen and equivalent specs than the gtablet.

I personally didn't think the gtablets screen was a dealbreaker at $399 so I would certainly not think its a dealbreaker for $299 and below.
[G Tablet General] Metal_in_Silk:
I have to say that after first shock I cracked up...literally guffawed! My son now knows without a doubt that his mom is completely looney tunes :D

Knew that couldn't be what you meant to say....but it was hilarious! :p
[G Tablet General] xmr405o:
Oh man! Thanks for quoting him! That was some funny sh*t. (Pun intended). I would have wondered all night what he misspelled haha.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Never said it was a dealbreaker, only trying to set expectations for users waiting for their devices from Woot. I agree that, at $285, it's certainly more tolerable than when it was at $400+. But it doesn't change the fact that the screen angles (one in particular) are bad.

Not so much here, but on Woot! there was at least one user who said "the screen angles are great!" and that's just not true. I don't want Woot users thinking that they are getting something they are not, as that's just not fair to them.

I suppose that there's a chance that these new batches actually have a different screen and, to be honest, that would be awesome if that were true. I'd certainly be a little jealous! But I have to go on the device we've seen ourselves, so that's what I'm reporting on.